Tire for vehicles.



\ No. 790,404. PATENTBD MAY 23, 1005.

l G. s. SQUIRBS.

TIRE FOR BHILBS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.17, 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 23, 1905.

PATENT OEEICE.

TIRE FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,404, dated May23,1905.

Application tiled September 1'7, 1904. Serial No. 224,798.

To a/ZZ whom if may con/cern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. SQUIEEs, a' citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented new and useful Improvements in Tires for Vehicles, ofwhich 6 and with the tube 8.

the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved tire for road-vehicles, such asautomobiles.

The object of the invention is to provide a strong durable resilienttire which can be easily applied to the rim of a wheel and which it willbe impossible to deflate by puncture.

The invention consists in a tire constructed as set forth in thefollowing specification and particularly pointed out in the claimsthereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvedtire, partly broken away for the purpose of illustration. Fig. 2 is atransverse section taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transversesection similar to Fig. 2 of a modified form of my invention. Fig. 4 isa transverse section similar to Fig. 2, upon a reduced scale, of anothermodified form of my invention;

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of thedrawings.

In the drawings, Figs. 1 and 2, 5 is a tire consisting of a series ofresilient tubes 6 6 and 7 arranged concentrically around a commoncentral tube 8. iThe tubes 6 6 and 8 are constructed of rubber.V Each ofsaid tubes has its ends butted together, as seenl in Fig. 1, the buttedends of one tube 6 breaking joints with the butted ends of the othertubes Said tubes are lashed together by adhesive tape 9l at intervalsthroughout the circumference of the tire. After the tubes have beenlashed together by adhesive tape said tubes are inclosed throughouttheir entire circumference by fabric 18, and finally the tire iscompleted by inclosing said tubes and fabric in a tubular covering 11.

The tube 7, Fig. 2, diers from the tubes -6 and 8 in said figure in thatit is collapsible and is provided with means to iniate the same,consisting of an air-valve, the object of this construction being todeflate the tire 5 In Fig. 2 the portion of the tire 12 forms the treadthereof, and in Fig. 3 the portion l2' forms the tread of the tire 5',said tread portions being thickened to increase the wearing capacity ofthe tire.

In Fig. 4 a modified form of my invention is illustrated in which thetubes 62 62 are made in the shape of solid resilient rings, the rest ofthe construction of the tire being as hereinbefore described in relationto the forms illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

It will readily be seen from the description hereinbefore set forth thatmy improved tire is very durable, cheap, and easily constructed and ifpunctured the tire will still remain serviceable for the use for whichit is intended.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire by LettersPatent to secure,

isv 1. A tire for vehicles comprising a series of resilient annulartubes tangent one to another and arranged concentrically around a commoncentral tube, said tubes lashed together at intervals throughout thecircumference thereof.

2. A tire for vehicles comprising a series of resilient annular tubestangent one to another and arranged concentrically around a commoncentral tube, said tubes lashed together at intervals throughout thecircumference thereof, one of said tubes being collapsible and providedwith means to inflate the same.

' 3. A tire for vehicles comprising a series of resilient annular tubesfastened together at intervals, said tubes inclosed Within a tubular Intestimony whereof I have hereunto set covering. my hand in presence oftwo subscribing wit- IO 4. A 'tire for vehicles comprising a serlesnesses. of resllient annular tubes, the ends of sald 5 tubes buttedtogether, said butted ends of one GEORGE b bQUlRhb tube breaking jointsWith the butted ends of Witnesses: the other tubes, said tubes lashedtogether ad- CHARLES S. GOODING, jacent to said butted ends. JAMES E.LEE.

